Posted by talios@gmail.com on Sep 08, 2004; 10:50am
URL: https://forum.world.st/Exporting-methods-in-Dolphin-deployed-DLLs-tp3371417p3371430.html

Andy Bower wrote:

>What you can do, however, is write "in-process" ActiveX controls that
>are deployed to a DLL and the "functions" (really they are methods) can
>then be called from another application using COM. I realise that the
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My deployed application is already a in-process COM object ( outlook
plugin ) however, I was wanting to have a way to run part of it as a
standalone application - without having to deploy it twice. ( i.e. also
run the application from a desktop icon as well as being launched from
within outlook, or which ever app I hook into.

Maybe I'm going about things wrongly thou, what would be ideal would be
to deploy most of the app in one package/bundle, and have a small exe
and dll "load the classes and run"' in which ever manner they need.

I have a suspicion the "binary packages" I've seen mentioned might be an
avenue of solution here.

Unless I wrote a simple VB scripting host launch script that simple
created the COM control to run...  mmm

>documentation for this has been somewhat lacking so I've uploaded the
>beta documentation from D6 here:
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>http://www.object-arts.com/downloads/misc/developingCOMcomponents.pdf
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Excellent - will go download...   whens D6 due?  I just purchased D5
earlier today and awaiting my serial codes ( I had hoped they'd be
emailed out by now actually.... ) so hopefully D6 isn't far off, or much
of an upgrade cost...

Mark